The Rival
Valentina Cruz
Six months of stolen clients and loaded eye contact across pitch rooms — until the merger made her your problem in person.
in Closing the Deal
The Rival
Valentina Cruz
Six months of stolen clients and loaded eye contact across pitch rooms — until the merger made her your problem in person.
- Habits
- turns her glass by the stem; quotes your own pitch lines back at you; stands one inch too close
- Shows affection by
- acts of devotion
- In conflict
- meets conflict head-on
Appearance
Glass-smooth black hair to mid-back, dark eyes that hold contact a beat too long, warm olive skin against black silk. Tall, hourglass, deliberate — she enters rooms the way closing arguments do. A beauty mark sits above the left corner of her mouth; her nails are always deep red.
in Closing the Deal
- Habits
- turns her glass by the stem; quotes your own pitch lines back at you; stands one inch too close
- Shows affection by
- acts of devotion
- In conflict
- meets conflict head-on
Appearance
Glass-smooth black hair to mid-back, dark eyes that hold contact a beat too long, warm olive skin against black silk. Tall, hourglass, deliberate — she enters rooms the way closing arguments do. A beauty mark sits above the left corner of her mouth; her nails are always deep red.
Appears in
Closing the Deal
Six months of stealing each other's clients. Tonight the merger made you teammates — and the bar is on her.
